How can atheists deny the evidence for Jesus?

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There are 42 sources within 150 years after Jesus’ death which mention his existence and record events of his life. One third of those sources were secular, non believing, Roman scholars.
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Only 10 sources within 150 years after Tiberius Caesar's death which... show more I meme to show evidence for Jesus

There are 42 sources within 150 years after Jesus’ death which mention his existence and record events of his life. One third of those sources were secular, non believing, Roman scholars.

COMPARED TO:

Only 10 sources within 150 years after Tiberius Caesar's death which mention his existence and record events of his life. The Roman Emperor that was in power during the time of Jesus.

As hard as the Romans & Sanhedrin tried to erase His name from history, they failed & He still exists over 2000 years later.

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The bible is what is called "Faction” A fictional story set in a factual time and place. Thus the time, place and real historical characters are all correct but the fictional characters and stories are not!

There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded!

There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!

He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record?

Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!

Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter!

At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!

Not one word of it is contemporary with the period and was not written until several hundred years after the period the story is set in!! How did the apostles write their books more than a hundred years after they would have been dead?

Christianity is an invention of the Italians and that is why it came from the Holy ROMAN Catholic church!

Please realize that those claims for the Old historians are worthless since they were not even born until long after everyone in the stories would have been so long dead!

Thallus - But there are no actual record of him except a fragment of writing which mentions the sack of Troy [109 BC] Showing that he was clearly not alive in biblical times.

Some even try to use Seneca. 4 BCE – 65 CE but as a Stoic Philosopher he opposed religion yet made not a single mention of a Jesus or Christianity!

Even funnier is trying to claim Celsus AD ? – 177 AD Who said that Jesus was a Jew who’se mother was a poor Jewish girl whose husband, who was a carpenter, drove her away because of her adultery with a Roman soldier named Panthera. She gave birth to an illegitimate child named Jesus. In Egypt, Jesus became learned in sorcery and upon his return presented himself as a god.

The first person to produce a single tiny little piece of verifiable evidence for Jesus ever really having existed will become world famous and mega rich!

Look, I can mention, 745 times within the day that there are little green men on Mars. That doesn't make it true. We simply don't know. The same applies to faith. Either you have it or you don't. It's something you are prepared to believe in without evidence, and that's true for followers of any kind of organized or personal faith. For atheists, they don't have faith. That's not wrong. It's no more wrong that failing to believe there are little green men on Mars!

I don't have to "deny" anything because I'm legally allowed to have my own opinions. As far as I'm concerned, even if Jesus somehow survived crucifixion, He did eventually die and now no longer exists. Personally, I reject Christianity because I've been subjected to a lifetime of unwelcome propaganda and suspect I've been lied to by poorly educated people who confuse their own mental experiences with objective reality.

put yourself in someone trying to lie and what would you do? if roman used that religion if they wanted to be credible, leaving sources and making claims helps, plus, jesus might have been real but it doesnt mean what he did in the bible is, its like justifying the bible big claims because they got some archeological findings right.. like duh... the bible was written by many and ofcurse they will have books that could tell them ehat happened or they might have witnessed themselfs

about ceaser, pitagoras, aquiles, all of them are considerated real because of evidence left behind but that doesnt mean that evidence wasnt lied too so for some reason they accept it as true because in this day, you cant prove anything, proof is for math peoblems and courts that too have its flaws

Simply because there is no such evidence. There is nothing but assertions, plain lies and no evidence. Read your NT story and closely notice that the character Jesus was not crucified. There are 4 Jesuses in that story.

Trying to deny any Caesar of the Roman Empire is a futile effort we have vastly more evidence for any Caesar than we have for Jesus, as we would expect because if you know Jesus myth the plan was that he was was a humble son of a carpenter born in a simple province of Rome called Judea even his crucifixion was the usual punishment that Romans practiced both random and intentional against populations they had conquered, in some places killing tens of thousands by crucifixion. This sad apologist pseudo-argument is actually a highly garbled version of something that has some basis, though is still a weak argument in its own right. Hint Roman got archives and we can confirm things like for example The Census of Quirinius that was a census of Judea taken by Publius Sulpicius Quirinius, Roman governor of Syria, upon the imposition of direct Roman rule in 6 CE. The author of the Gospel of Luke( hint was not Luke ) uses it as the narrative means to establish the birth of Jesus but Luke places the census within the reign of Herod the Great, who died 10 years earlier... As hard as Christians try no satisfactory explanation of the contradiction seems possible on the basis of present knowledge, and most scholars think that the author of the gospel made a mistake, and we got the numbers of the Census... there is the problem of the correct transmission of numbers in the manuscripts. Second, there is the issue of who precisely are being counted in each census. Third, there is the question as to whether complete census returns were ever made. Most authorities find it difficult to believe that statistics prior to 340 B.C. are anything but fictitious, notice that is called reality because official documents or historians or religious people can make up things... like those Christians apologetic sources that sometimes had been proven forged or edited to fit their fantasies

That isn't evidence of anything but hearsay, fan fiction, propaganda and wishful thinking. No one mentioned a half-god doing miracles in that area in any of their writings. That age was very well documented. We have quite a clear picture of people's lives, what they ate, their laws, who or what they worshiped, festivals, executions, wars, rebellions, philosophies. Isn't it enough that you believe? Shouldn't that be enough for you and others in your same boat? You have faith in Jesus and some semblance of those teachings and sayings and directives attributed to him have managed to be handed down through the centuries. Other people might not believe in that or find it silly or more in the land of fables and myth. But, so what? That's no skin off your nose, at all. Go on with your day.

Unlike the mythical Jesus Christ, we know what Caesar looked like and we have a complete history of his life. In turn, general, orator, historian, statesman and lawgiver. We have words written by Caesar himself and words written by both his friends and his enemies. Artifacts confirm his life and death, as do his successors. Caesar established a style of government – and a calendar – which endured for centuries.
There are contemporary works of art with his image on them (busts, coins). Amount of contemporary evidence for Jesus? ZERO

Writing something down does not make it so. A lie/mistake is still a lie/mistake if it is reported 150 years later